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Update:
I have tried several burners, the md5 is good, and when i load it in the cd emulator ( the digital image) and open it with isobuster, i can see the data and the boot catalog.
After i burn it, the disk shows itself as having 0 space, and 0 data... odd
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i am lost here

I cannot see what you could be doing wrong here as if I mount the iso I get the two folders showing. If I put the burnt cd in the drive I can see the two folders the cd shows as 689MB 0 Free.

just a quick thought from what you said earlier your not mounting the iso using some kind of virtual drive and then doing a disk copy from there are you ?
If so don't, just burn the iso slowly using imgburn.

I moved the data image to a desktop PC, burned, rebooted... and went into Backtrack. /cheer!

I put that same disk into the laptop. (the original machine) And i get the same problem, its like the disk doesnt exist, however, on the same exact make and model, it does.

This seems to scream at me "your dvd drive is toast" >< but i have no problem with say, an audio cd. The error i seem to be getting is "device is not ready." this error is only occurring with the BT disk in.